| Fog Devils sold, move planned to Quebec
The St. John's Fog Devils hockey team has been sold to a new Quebec-based owner, leaving a city-owned stadium without an anchor tenant. The Fog Devils, who play in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, were founded in 2005 after the Toronto Maple Leafs pulled their farm team from St. John's that year. Mile One has relied on the St. John's Fog Devils as a key tenant for the last three seasons. (CBC) Owner Derm Dobbin has had troubles with management of the Mile One stadium over rental costs, and team president Brad Dobbin said earlier this season that low spectator turnout was making operating the team difficult. Matthew Ryder, the team's media relations officer, said hockey fans would not likely see a replacement soon for the Fog Devils. "In my opinion, St.
Recap of Saturday, February 23
Health care is really tough at this point. All you have to do is look at all the other countries that have it. We hear in "SiCKO" how great these other countries are, but we don't hear that the people make significantly less than we do, they're taxed significantly more than we are, and a lot of people die on the waiting list for free services. We don't want that here. Neil Cavuto: Ben Stein, what do you think? Ben Stein: I think the Oscars will have nothing to do with the health care debate, but we cannot afford universal health care at this point unless we're going to have a major tax increase on the wealthy. I think that's coming down the pike anyway. This country is tapped out for the middle class. No more taxes on them, period. That's done. It's going to be all people like you, Mr.
Willy Northpole and the Phoenix hip-hop scene explode
The George S. May Company is going to join Magedson's corporate advocacy program. (Kushnir declined to say how much he's paying.) Basically, Kushnir will pay Magedson to reveal the complainants against the company, and then Kushnir can do what he would have wanted to do all along address them. Good news for Magedson. But not such good news for the people who had anonymously blasted George S. May. After all, Magedson will be giving them up. And if they're current employees, they're probably going to be in trouble with a capital T. Kushnir says he won't sue anybody he's learned his lesson but if it's a disgruntled secretary who called the founder a pedophile, it's hard to imagine things will end happily for her. Kushnir says he's happy with how things ended. But the incident does raise some ethical questions.
Stadium Plans Unveiled
PUBLIC COSTS ARE EQUAL!!! 2) Parking/traffic: first of all don't pretend it isn't a pain in the *! at Rosenblatt right now. Just this past year I had to park 25 min from the stadium. look at the OWH article on stalls downtown w/in 12 min & stalls at Blatt & realize that a new stadium is the logical choice. could go on & on...
Posted by: Lizz Location: Omaha on Feb 27, 2008 at 09:46 PM If they can tear down Yankee stadium, we can tear down Rosenblatt! Change is good people! Embrace it! The College World Series brings significant business, money, and positive national attention to Omaha. If we lose it because we are not willing to embrace change, the city's finances will be much worse in the long run. As for the woman who said she "heard traffic is bad downtown" maybe she should try traveling down there! Do you really get an opinion on this project if you do not attend any games at Rosenblatt or appreciate our last major success as a city, the Qwest Center? I think there are plenty of Omahans that are ready and willing for a new stadium.
No wonder they like Putin
Russia is, in parts, booming, and not just because of oil prices. It is making things, and in well-run towns like Archangel there is a level of wealth that is quite new. Even a Tory MP observing the elections, angry at being cold-shouldered, interspersed his criticism of Mr Putin with the remark that some of the housing estates he had seen might have been in Surrey. His victory also reflects a will on the part of Russians never to have to go through the horrors of the Chechen war ever again. Remember the Moscow theatre siege, and the gassing of the audience? Or the Beslan schoolchildren massacred in their own urine? That these things are in the past is to Mr Putin's credit, and so they deserve to be. More generally, the Russians feel at last that someone is standing up for them.
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A fan's perspective.
Two Super Bowls, one in the midst of an ice storm. Five World Series in the '90s with the Braves though I only choose to think of the one in '95. The Democratic National Convention in '88, (actually, I left for Tampa while that circus came to town
but Rob Lowe was here). There was the MLB All Star game in 2000 in which Sammy Sosa launched a shot over the giant scoreboard during the home run contest, (juiced balls? Performance enhancers? Nah
couldn't be). And now the 2008 NHL All Star weekend, which was much awaited and anticipated, has come and gone leaving a plethora of memories. Hossa's goal, Nash's hat trick, the West All Stars erasing a 5-1 deficit, Enstrom playing in the Young Stars game, Kovy's give-n-go goal with Eric Staal, and so much more. But what will probably stick with me the most as I think about the 56th NHL All Star game is the way it was played in the third period, especially the last several minutes.
Buckle up, it’s going to be one bumpy ride
I took my own lunar trek for the first time Thursday after hearing horror stories of the treacherous state-controlled stretch of North Alpine Road and its unearthly craters. Hard-bitten Rockford drivers, shaken after every winter by the city's craggy streets, paint the stretch of Alpine as a place where sanity dies and is buried near the median — a graveyard marked by mangled hub caps. I'm not from Rockford, so when Donna Stark told me about the potholes, I chuckled in disbelief. "I swear to God some of them go to China," Stark, 44, told me. "It feels like you're going to fall right through them." Donna, I am sorry I ever doubted you. After an hour back and forth on Alpine between East Riverside Boulevard and Spring Creek Road, I'm wet with splattered coffee. Though the northbound lanes have been patched recently, the ride is still rough and damaging.
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